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by veidr 3y ago
We don't know, since we don't have the code. Both are possible. Science knows I've written a shit-ton of incorrect code that accidentally worked until it suddenly didn't. OTOH if you make an OS and you break API contract
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by veidr 3y ago
Wholeheartedly agree with you, but I want to check my own understanding, which is: iLok became this weird monopoly because it let all the makers of actual music software stop doing all this weird shit, right? Like hiding registration detail
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by veidr 3y ago
Yeah, but iLok especially, but Mac music-production software as a whole always has the stench of death about it. Even the Intel->Apple CPU transition was awful, with many (super performance-intensive, latency-sensitive) audio software pa
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by veidr 3y ago
lol, indeed, that is the full monty
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by veidr 3y ago
Did Mark Zuckerberg ever actually use it? I felt like it got shitty after John Carmack left FB. I don't think he was direct in the UI side much (more like increasing framerate in software updates) but I got the sense that as VR CTO o
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by veidr 3y ago
So what? the iPhones have 4x the price of mid-tier Android phones the whole time. The point is, for now the AVP is the only iPhone-tier (Pro Ultra Whatever) VR headset. Meta's crap (I have all of them) is analogous to the mid tier budg
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by veidr 3y ago
But, how the average person wants to use a computer is extremely, irreconcilably different from how the 5% (or 2% probably but whatever, doesn't matter) want to use their computers. So... sniff sniff what's that smell? The mar
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by veidr 3y ago
It's not totally different. It's very similar. The main difference is that there might be any number of equally-or-more-valid reasons to have AR/MR glasses on than "it's too bright". Like, "I'm on cal
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by veidr 3y ago
Well I definitely wasn't (as in, as a kid I never washed my hands unless a teacher/parent/FBI agent told me "hey, wash your hands!")... But my kids are young, and were like real young when the pandemic started, an
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by veidr 3y ago
But couldn't we do better? As a parent of young children, I've been kind of fixating on this, as I try to teach them how to wash their hands. Couldn't we make a cheap, foolproof, patent-free, no-power-required hand-washing de
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by veidr 3y ago
Wait, this article is idiotic. I first skimmed it as they made this fake flying car with $150 refundable preorders, and their market cap went to $850,000,000. In fact, that's just a number that was in somebody's ass (not sure if t
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by veidr 3y ago
I mean, impressive, until you realize the "pre-order" is only $150 that is refundable if the preorderer changes their mind. Then it becomes more "impressive, in the Long Island Iced Tea, I Mean Blockchain, Corp" kind[1]
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by veidr 3y ago
Interesting, I just posted a question to Reddit about this[1] but I have been testing and using KRdp myself for a while. I'm one of those users who (due to blah blah blah) must use Wayland, but also must have some remote desktop capa
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by veidr 3y ago
A full-featured columns view, like that of macOS (but also implemented by various file browsers over the years), has an arbitrary number of resizable columns. Perhaps optionally with a preview pane at the end where the last column would oth
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by veidr 3y ago
Definitely true (and I do install Konsole on GNOME if I have to use GNOME) but probably not super common. Most people, myself included, are gonna install the DE and its apps by choosing it in the OS installer (or at least with a single comm
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by veidr 3y ago
> if you stray out of the happy path, you encounter plenty of bugs But to me the happy path (the defaults) out-of-the-box on KDE are just better. The console and text editor are legitimately 10x better than GNOME's. The settings app
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by veidr 3y ago
The desktop cube is back[1] in KDE Plasma 6! :-D Oh, did you mean the other kind of desktop cube... [1] https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/cube.webm
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by veidr 3y ago
That shit is their bread and butter, though. They will literally never get rid of it, they've spent the past 5 years doubling down on that, and then doubling down on it again. Their message is clear: if you don't like it, fuck o
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by veidr 3y ago
Yeah, noteworthy point. Also, I think the article is weirdly sensationalized — the FDA isn't "against" anything here. If you click through to the FDA's bulletin[1], it's merely stating for clarity and public awarene
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by veidr 3y ago
What's the TL;DR on that Quantune device? Does it achieve a new level of noninvasive accuracy? (I did visit the website but there is no information (possibly because I'm in Japan which has regulations around public disclosure of
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by veidr 3y ago
Well, you are describing the maximally absurd end of that spectrum to make your point, but in the US the FDA does indeed ban all kinds of stuff to prevent both its sale, and use (i.e. to stop "the stupid" from using it). Blood glu
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by veidr 3y ago
The standard meaning of "non-invasive" with respect to blood glucose monitoring is that you measure blood glucose without the need to puncture/penetrate the skin. We know how to accurately test the blood for various things if
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by veidr 3y ago
Uh, of the 100 or so acquaintances I have who use iphones, way more than half of them use their memoji for their public-facing visual representation. Nobody writes news articles about that for the same reason they no longer write news artic
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by veidr 3y ago
I mean, that's about how well I did when I looked at that image, too...
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by veidr 3y ago
Annoying, but if you're a first-gen user paying $3500 for the device, you probably either have Apple's TV/movies offering or don't care much about paying for it for your flight.
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by veidr 3y ago
I have their camera system in my home (and am generally happy with it). You can set it to be accessible only via the local network (and whatever holes you punch through yourself, e.g. setting up VPN), but to compete with cloud-based solutio
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by veidr 3y ago
This isn't really a terminal app at this point — it's more like a dedicated GUI for bash. While you can launch zsh from bash, then this app sees it as an infinitely-running subprocess of one command, which basically breaks this ap
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by veidr 3y ago
> (Whether things worked out as he envisioned is a slightly different matter.) But also the key point, right? Although I suspect he was correct. (Also, has very little to do with the purchasing dynamics of movies or music, etc., although
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by veidr 3y ago
He was right; it has now played out and this is a legitimate accounting of it. It goes beyond the headline, though. We should rejoice that we have a writer that can make such boring-ass societal degradation interesting. I never "bought
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by veidr 3y ago
Yes, that's correct. Everybody does it, but typically/historically allies, or even just non-enemies, prefer not to wildly escalate things.

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